The story was about how the world is changing, how those changes are playing out in our music buying habits, and how those habits relate to the percentage of album sales for those top 200 albums.

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For the interviews and speeches I gave, I needed to sprinkle facts here and there, such as the percentage of album sales generated by the top 200 selling albums.

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Mr. McCLINTON: Yeah, and it's number one on Americano this week, number 14 in country albums and 150-something on the Billboard top 200.

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Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, the Bee Gees have sold more than 200 million albums, and their soundtrack album to "Saturday Night Fever" was the top-selling album until Michael Jackson's "Thriller" claimed that distinction in the 1980s.

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